Issues of shame and guilt in the modern novel : Conrad, Ford, Greene, Kafka, Camus, Wilde, Proust, and Mann / David Tenenbaum ; with a foreword by Adrian S. Wisnicki
Survivor guilt: Conrad's anti-heroes -- Keeping up appearances: aristocratic anxiety in the novels of Ford Madox Ford -- The modern confessional: Catholic guilt in the novels of Graham Greene And François Mauriac -- Elders, institutions and existential guilt in the fiction of Franz Kafka and Albert Camus -- Queer imaginings: l'amour d'impossible in Wilde, James, Proust and Mann -- Afterword: the great escape: the reverence and regret of the American dream
Summary
This study addresses the changes in literary depictions of remorse fostered by modernist literature's response to normative ethical standards. Certain twentieth-century authors believed that the High Modern Period demanded a reconsideration of how individuals may hope to achieve the same social responsibility dictated by traditional values in light of a greater awareness of fundamental human impulses
